A superb 2-8 from Alisha O\u2019Malley helped steer the Tribeswomen to the inaugural title at Tubbercurry.<\/p>\n
Ava Heneghan also found the Donegal net in a first half that disappointed Donegal joint-manager Dessie McNamara, whose side were nine points down by the break.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fairness to Galway, they knew we moved the ball quickly inside and they had the girls tightly marked,\u201d said McNamara, who, along with colleague Paul Gillespie, admitted that chasing the game was tough.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe our shot selection was wrong, chasing the game you are forcing things and it was too much for us in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n The first Ulster champions only managed four first-half points while Alanna Boyle and Galway\u2019s Banek both received yellow cards before the end of the half.<\/p>\n Sara Thomas had opened the scoring for Donegal before O\u2019Malley\u2019s two-point attempt caught Ellie McGarvey out for a goal inside two minutes.<\/p>\n O\u2019Malley posted another 1-1, pointing first before winning a short kick-out and firing into the roof of the net on ten minutes.<\/p>\n Heneghan was taken down for a penalty, and O\u2019Malley stepped up to complete her hat-trick, only to be denied by a good save from McGarvey.<\/p>\n They did get a third goal on 21 minutes when Aoibhinn Madden found Heneghan, who struck the bottom corner of McGarvey\u2019s net and that put them in control.<\/p>\n Caitlin Fletcher, who finished with 1-4 for Donegal, did find the net after Thomas hit the bar, but O\u2019Malley responded with two from play.<\/p>\n Chloe Costello and Fletcher kicked further scores, but three O\u2019Malley frees kept them at bay with a late Katie Slattery point,<\/p>\n In the closing stages, Fletcher kicked a two-pointer, but it was too little too late for the T\u00edr Chonaill side.<\/p>\n Galway scorers: A O\u2019Malley 2-8 (5f), A Heneghan 1-0, S Murray, K Banek, K Slattery 0-1 each.<\/p>\n Donegal scorers: C Fletcher 1-4, L Ward 0-2 (2f), S Thomas, A O\u2019Neill and C Costello 0-1 each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland U20 Ladies Football Championship Final: Donegal 1-9 Galway 3-11 First-half goals from Galway proved to be too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43268,121459,231725,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-546660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ladies-football","tag-all-ireland-final","tag-donegal-lgfa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dublin-Kerry:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IVHMVY5SYZD6DGXWCDUZ2OKY5Q.jpg\")
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